“Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.”

If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.

A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.

In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.

The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.

All saints have past and all sinners have a future.

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.

There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.

You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.

My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom–freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.

Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.

Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

Three o’clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can’t sleep, I am so happy.

The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.

To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment.

I think the most important thing is just if you hire people whose personal values match the corporate core values – and not just the stated ones.

You can tell an honest artist from one who’s just given all their songs.

No one is born with self confidence. Self confidence is learned and earned with experience.

Women’s liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

The only feelings that do not heal are the ones you hide.